... some of the best in popular music research compiled by Dr Mark Duffett

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

NORTHWEST POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES NETWORK

POPULAR MUSIC AND AUTOMOBILE CULTURE: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM

9.30am-4.30pm, Room CBK 013/1
Binks Building,

University of Chester, England

Friday 22nd June 2012

Event organisers:

Dr Chris Hart, Dr Mark Duffett and Dr Beate Peter

From Cadillacs to tour buses, motor vehicles and popular music have developed in parallel as symbiotic commodities. Their intimate and intertwined relationship evokes issues and feelings that characterize life in modern society. The conference aims to outline and discuss this relationship between these two culturally charged commodities...

'Born To Roll’: An Examination of Jeep Culture in The Music of Masta Ace

Jon Stewart - Brighton Institute of Modern Music

‘Motorpsycho Nightmare’: Bob Dylan and Car Culture

Charles E. Sykes - Indiana University, USA

The Auto Assembly Line: Metaphor and Model for Motown

Tim Summers - University of Bristol

Music in Racing Video Games

Tim Wall and Nick Webber - Birmingham City University

Rock 'n' Roll: Cars, Convergence and Culture

Justin A. Williams - Anglia Ruskin University

Toward a Sloanist Theory of Popular Music Production

About the organisers:

Dr Chris Hart is Senior Lecturer in Advertising at Chester. He recently co-managed the largest study done to date into the economics and social impact of historic vehicles in Europe.

Dr Mark Duffett is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Chester. He is known as a popular music scholar whose central interests include fandom and Elvis Presley.

Dr Beate Peter is a member of the Institute for Performance Research at Manchester Metropolitan University with research interests in music psychology and popular culture. Her comparative study of techno in Detroit and Berlin is to be published in Spring 2012.